Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzerwas an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 January 1791
CountryAustria
beautiful integrity genius
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
beautiful moon years
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
beautiful book together
A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.
beauty beautiful uplifting
Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.
converts half oh wisdom
Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.
claimed difference mistake mistakes three
Every mistake has three stages: first, it is made, second, it is not admitted, and third, its claimed it didnt make any difference anyway.
speed slow-down bits
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
grieving austria may
They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.
world fossils bones
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
deception lost torture
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
dangerous-situations apathy temper
The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.
tasks metaphysics empiricism
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
learning self growing
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
diplomats politician excellent
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.